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Grand Duchess of Spring
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Homeland Security recommends disabling Java
The Department of Homeland Security has recommended citizens disable Java due to a security bug.
I haven't heard them recommend such a thing before regarding software bugs. It seems odd to me. Anyone else?
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Come on you stranger, you legend,
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It looks legit enough that we've disabled Java on all our rigs. Oracle doesn't have a patch for this. I'm really surprised there isn't more buzz about it, since it's on all the major news sources.
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Learning the craft
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I'm not sure what the vulnerability is about, but here is how to disable java
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414191,00.asp |
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Cultus Gopherus MacAllister
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They're about three months behind Apple and Microsoft.
Don't confuse Java, used to run applications in a Web browser, with JavaScript. JavaScript is OK. Keep in mind that if you use Star Chat to chat, you'll need to re-enable Java before you can use it or other Java applets.
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Oracle have seriously dropped the ball these last few months.
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Learning the craft
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From what I read apparently this is just one of many vulnerabilities in java. Disabling is a must now.
Last edited by Paperback Writer; 01-13-2013 at 01:42 AM. |
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Learning the craft
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I checked my Windows 7 Firefox and it was already disabled thankfully. I went ahead and disabled the entire plugin just in case. The plugin was missing on my Mint laptop too.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p182 Java Plugin 7 update 10 and lower (click-to-play), Windows has been blocked for your protection. Why was it blocked?The Java plugin is causing significant security problems. All users are strongly recommended to keep the plugin disabled unless necessary.Who is affected?All users who have these versions of the plugin installed in Firefox 17 and above.What does this mean? The problematic add-on or plugin will be automatically disabled and no longer usable. |
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Grand Duchess of Spring
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Which is all good and fine, but since when does Homeland Security start issuing such warnings? That is what seems odd to me.
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I'm not a bitch! I'm English!
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Does this apply everywhere or just in America?
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Learning the craft
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Everywhere, the software is the same.
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I'm not a bitch! I'm English!
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Odd that it's not been publicised over here then.
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Why would your tabloid reporters publicize something when doing so would make it harder for them to hack into people's computers?
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I'm not a bitch! I'm English!
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Well... yeah. There is that! LOL!
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The Guardian covered it back in August. (The BBC, oddly, seems to have avoided any mention of it.)
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A number of the IT lists I'm on started coverage of this in May. There were problems with large deployments at some schools even before that, especially on Windows but on OS X too. The updates and variations started confusing even professionals. The army started issuing cautions about deploying jave apps even before that, as did Apple. They are again, like TSA theater, going about it wrong.
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Anyone know how long this is going to last?
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Oracle says they will fix the problem "shortly."
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Grand Duchess of Spring
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Thanks, Medi.
Shadow Dragon, thanks for the Chicago Tribune's article. Quote:
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The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency has recommended it too, so it's not just the American government.
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i don't want to die
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Cultus Gopherus MacAllister
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JavaScript is used by more than half the Web sites on the 'net. Including this one; that's why your're having trouble formatting and using pop-up menus. If you clicked a clicky box in your Web browser, you've turned off Java Script, not Java. Java is a plug-in or binary add on. On Windows systems it may be called JRE or Jave Runtime Environment. Here's how to remove Java on Windows.
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i don't want to die
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They're totally different things.
Some idiot thought it would be a good idea to give them similar-sounding names. |
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Learning the craft
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At this point I would just leave it disabled, and turn it on on an as needed basis. Oracle will just leave the next security hole unattended for as long as they can as well.
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